Plant Manager - Lippert

Plant Manager

Who We Are:

Lippert is a leading, global manufacturer and supplier of highly engineered products and customized solutions, dedicated to shaping, growing and bettering the RV, marine, automotive, commercial vehicle and building products industries.  We combine our strategic manufacturing capabilities with the power of our winning team culture to deliver unrivaled customer service, award-winning innovation and premium products to all of our customers.

Why We are Different:

At Lippert, Everyone Matters. This is not just a tagline or empty promise; it is who we are.  We have intentionally created a culture that values and celebrates our team members’ unique and varied backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences.  We strive to give our team members a deeper sense of purpose at work, and we continue to build a better work environment by aligning our cultural and business strategies with the needs of our team members.

What You will Get:

1. A unique, inclusive, and supportive company culture.
2. Comprehensive benefit offerings including medical, dental, vision, 401k with employer match, vacation, and more!
3. Fair and competitive compensation.
4. Career development and mentoring and opportunities to grow.
5. Holiday, personal and vacation days.

Summary/Objective:

The Plant Manager (PM) is responsible for managing and leading manufacturing department supervisors, team leaders, and team members for assigned areas / shifts to ensure safety, quality, positive work environment, customer requirements, and manufacturing needs are met.  Provide leadership and motivation to direct reports in manufacturing system that emphasizes safety, quality, customer satisfaction, accuracy, productivity, cost reduction, housekeeping, efficiency, training, teamwork, and morale.

Duties and Responsibilities:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties and responsibilities.

1. Ensure planning, fabrication, weld, finishing, and assembly manufacturing operations are running effectively in the areas of safety, quality, productivity, cost, and team member morale.
2. Provide direction, training, and motivation to supervisors as they lead their teams.
3. Be intentional in your interactions and relationships with all team members in your organization by having regular one-on-ones.
4. Take ownership of manufacturing’s KPI’s by tracking the data, reporting the KPI’s daily, and analyzing performance to improve our customer experience.
5. Lead layered process audits in the production areas to ensure procedures for safety, quality, equipment, and training are being followed and all aspects of manufacturing are effective including correcting sub-standards.
6. Implement short and long-term corrective actions for manufacturing problems by engaging with your support groups and following through on the expected results.
7. Ensure all departmental procedures are compliant with quality, safety, and environmental management systems and programs.
8. Drive the implementation of standard work, TPM, and 5S on the production floor by training, assigning direction, and following through on the results.

Working Environment

• Primarily working indoors, production floor and office environment.
• May work on the production floor/outside periodically and could be exposed to elements (heat, rain, etc.)
• While performing the duties of this job, you may be exposed to fumes or airborne particles, moving mechanical parts and vibration.
• May sit or stand for several hours at a time.
• Prolonged exposure to computer screens.
• Repetitive use of hands to operate computers, machines, printers, and copiers.

Qualifications:

1. Bachelor’s degree in business or engineering with 5 - 7 years’ experience working in a manufacturing setting. A combination of experience and education will be considered.
2. Previous management experience in manufacturing for a minimum of 5 years.
3. Familiar with operations processes, accounting concepts, information systems (ERP).
4. Must have effective analytical/communication skills and business acumen.
5. Must be capable of both tactical and strategic planning and execution.
6. Computer proficiency in Microsoft Office and Adobe programs.

Preferred Education and Experience:

1. Fabrication and Welding industry experience for 7 - 10 years.
2. Previous manufacturing management experience for a minimum of 7 years.

Essential Functions:

1. Serves as the Manufacturing leader, ensuring that all team members are motivated and engaged with our safety, productivity, quality, and cost targets.
2. Develops and maintains positive team member relations centered on mutual trust, dignity, respect, fairness, consistency, two-way communication, teamwork, and harmony.
3. Prepares the daily debrief (production review) and reports out to the Assistant General Manager.
4. Actively participates in improving the safety of the manufacturing team by monitoring performance and working closely with the EHS manager corrective actions.
5. Manages the manufacturing budget including adjusting resources to achieve targets.
6. Coordinate and maintain standardization of process/methods.
7. Develops, leads, monitors, and participates in a Manufacturing continuous improvement system.
8. Implement, monitor, and maintain a clean, organized department. 
9. Participates in management discussions and planning sessions to help formulate cost reduction, product improvement, and problem-solving activities. 
10. Ensures further development of group leaders, team leaders, and team members through performance evaluation, development of training plans, feedback, coaching, corrective action, and cascade training. 

Competencies:

1. Communication Proficiency / Coaching
2. Organizational Skills
3. Staffing
4. Initiative
5. Thoroughness
6. Time Management
7. Management Proficiency
8. Financial Planning and Strategy
9. Process Improvement
10. Decision Making
11. Strategic Planning
12. Quality Management / Control

Supervisory Responsibility:

This position has direct supervision of the Production Supervisors of all 3 shifts.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by a Team Member to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

While performing the duties of this job, the Team Member is regularly required to talk and hear. This position is very active and requires standing, walking, bending, kneeling, stooping, crouching, crawling, and climbing all day. The Team Member may have to lift and/or move items over 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus. This position requires Personal Protective Equipment.  Protective Equipment supplied by the company includes Coating suit, Coating Boots, Spray Socks, Respirator, Work Gloves, Safety Glasses and Ear Plugs.  Employees may be required to provide additional Protective Equipment (Safety Shoes, etc.).

Position Type/Expected Hours of Work:

This is a full-time salary position, with ownership of all 3 shifts of production. As such, it is primarily a day shift role with the occasional need to work a weekend or stay late to check in on off-shifts. Working schedule is ultimately decided by production and your manager.

Travel:

Travel will be minimal and would be primarily local during the business day. The possibility of traveling to other Lippert facilities does exist.

Work Authorization/Security Clearance:

Must be able to pass E Verify.

AAP/EEO Statement:

Lippert provides equal employment opportunity to all team members and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, age, genetic information, disability, citizen status, veteran status, military service, marital status or any other legally protected category as established by federal, state, or local law.  This policy governs all employment decisions, including recruitment, hiring, job assignment, compensation, training, promotion, discipline, transfer, leave-of-absence, access to benefits, layoff, recall, termination and other personnel matters.  All employment and personnel-related decisions are based solely upon legitimate, job-related factors, such as skill, ability, past performance, and length of service with Lippert.

Lippert’s strong commitment to equal employment opportunity requires a commitment by each individual team member.  Compliance with the letter and spirit of this policy is required of all team members.  Violations of this policy should be immediately reported to your leader or to any member of leadership.  Team members who violate this policy will be subject to disciplinary action, up to and including termination of employment.

Other Duties:
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the Team Member for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Lippert provides equal employment opportunity to all team members and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, age, genetic information, disability, citizen status, protected veteran status, military service, marital status or any other legally protected category as established by federal, state, or local law.  This policy governs all employment decisions, including recruitment, hiring, job assignment, compensation, training, promotion, discipline, transfer, leave-of-absence, access to benefits, layoff, recall, termination and other personnel matters.  All employment and personnel-related decisions are based solely upon legitimate, job-related factors, such as skill, ability, past performance, and length of service with Lippert.

Lippert’s strong commitment to equal employment opportunity requires a commitment by each individual team member.  Compliance with the letter and spirit of this policy is required of all team members.  Violations of this policy should be immediately reported to your leader or to any member of leadership.  Team members who violate this policy will be subject to disciplinary action, up to and including termination of employment.

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